Luanda–Angola will next week approve a new constitution set to further strengthen the president’s three-decade hold, state radio said on Wednesday within days of a deadly rebel ambush on Togo’s visiting soccer team.

Abuja–The Senate yesterday ordered investigation of the security lapses arising from the seeming failure of the relevant security agencies in Nigeria to act on the report made by Alhaji Umaru Abdulmutallab against his son Farouk, who is now facing criminal charges in the United States over his failed attempt to bomb a US airliner on Christmas day.

NAIROBI—On Tuesday the U.S. embassy confirmed that it had denied a request from Hussein Ali for a travel visa. The former police head and now-postmaster general had reportedly sought the visa to visit Los Angeles for official business.

Nairobi—Kenyan MOD expressed concerns over massive invasion of al Shabab terrorist cells in his country, while other reports show that al-Shabab has operatives in Nairobi and that its ideology had bleeded into Kenya.

Mogadishu–Seven children were among ten people killed in shelling by Somali government forces in Mogadishu on Wednesday as the troops backed by African Union (AU) peacekeepers fired mortars into districts held by Islamist insurgents.

Tizi-Ouzou–The Algerian army forces have bombed, last Monday night, the shelters of the Salafi groups that activate under the banner of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in the forests of Tizi Ouzou (east of Algiers).

Algiers–The Algerian government has intensified its crackdown against the use of anonymous mobile phone SIM cards after it found terrorists used unidentifiable chips to communicate and coordinate attacks in the country …

Luanda–Italian Government Wednesday in Luanda came up with aspects linked to a training project of customs and fiscal police, as well as technology and computer sectors, with view to prevent and combat terrorism.

Maputo-–Key Southern African leaders will hold a special summit on Thursday in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, to discuss the crisis in Madagascar and the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe, officials said.

Juba–Major donor Britain is pressing Sudan’s former north-south foes urgently to resolve differences over borders and sharing oil revenues, with a southern referendum on independence less than a year away.

SA’ ANA–A coordinated approach is necessary to destroy al-Qaeda’s capabilities. The United States has developed interesting techniques to fight the conditions that nurture terrorism, including establishing the half civilian U.S. Africa Command.

Abidjan–cote d’Ivoire has requested the United Nations increase its peacekeeping presence in the country to reinforce security ahead of the country’s presidential elections expected to take place in March.

Washington, DC–A Department of Homeland Security report detailed a clandestine aircraft fleet flying multi-ton loads of cocaine and possibly weapons to an area in Africa where factions of al-Qaida are believed to be facilitating the smuggling of drugs to Europe.